Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe

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Date	2011-05-05 12:22 +1000
Subject	Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Irmen de Jong <irmen@-nospam-xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I think that often, the cleverness of people is inversely proportional to
> the amount of CPU power and RAM that they have in their computer.

As Mark Rosewater is fond of saying, restrictions breed creativity.
Lack of computational resources is a major restriction (for an extreme
example of RAM shortage, look at how much code you can fit into a boot
sector without loading anything more from the disk). Take away all the
restrictions, and people will tend to code sloppily.

Chris Angelico

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  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-04 21:02 +0200
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 12:13 -0700
      Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-04 21:35 +0200
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-04 19:17 +0000
      Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-05 09:33 +1000
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 12:22 +1000
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  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-04 15:42 -0400
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      Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-04 20:26 -0400
        Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 18:15 -0700
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